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Iran's Abhar Cable & Wire Company has won a $40-million contract from the Iraqi government for supply of high voltage cables for the electricity ministry, said a report.
Alireza Kolahi, the managing director, said the comp

Amsterdam-listed OCI NV , the Egyptian construction, chemicals and fertiliser company, has announced a fall in orders at its building business ahead of plans to list it as a separate company.
The company also said it had taken pro

Dubai-based airline Emirates hopes to talk to plane maker Airbus in the next few months over possibly buying A350 planes after it unexpectedly cancelled an order for 70 in June, the airline's president Tim Clark said.
The canc

Airbus expects to win at least one order from the Middle East for a revamped version of its twin-aisle A330 jet before the end of the year, its sales chief said on Thursday.
The planemaker closed the Farnboroug

Dubai-based Emirates airline has placed a record-breaking order for 150 Boeing 777X jetliners valued at $56 billion at list prices, said the top US plane maker in a statement.
First announced as a commitment at the 2013 Dubai Airs

Fears over the spread of deadly viruses in the Middle East have spurred Bahrain's Health Ministry to up its annual order of flu vaccine to 50,000 doses.
Recent outbreaks of H1N1 swine flu and Middle East Re

Airbus has won an order for an Airbus ACJ320 from a Middle East customer, thus adding to the strong presence of its corporate jets in the region.
The aircraft, which is being managed by Aviation Link of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, will

Boeing today celebrated a milestone achievement on the 737 MAX program, surpassing the 2000th order for the super-efficient single-aisle airplane.
With an additional 30 orders from unidentified customers this week, the 737 MAX now

Emirates, Dubai's flagship airline, would be interested in ordering more A380s from Airbus if the planemaker brought a revamped version of the superjumbo onto the market, much like it has done with its A320neo, an executive told Reuters.

Five South Korean companies have won a combined $7.2 billion in orders from Kuwait National Petroleum Company to expand capacity and improve environmental standards at two oil refineries.
The contracts, which s